Service

2004
Photography, C-Print, 125 x 150 cm (56 x 44 in)
Weimar, Germany

In Service, a young woman stands in erotic lingerie on a cross-trainer, placed within a minimalist office space whose yellow-brown color scheme evokes the office aesthetics of the 1980s. Her expression is one of surprise, as if caught in an unauthorized moment, transforming the public space of the office into a private, intimate zone.

The office, traditionally a place of regulation, normativity, and business interaction, is here opened up through the intimate light of sensuality and femininity. The conventional forms of work and professionalism are questioned as the space, usually defined by distance, is confronted with the presence of the woman in an unexpected intimacy. The voyeuristic perspective places the viewer in a position that undermines the distance between them and the setting. The otherwise sterile environment of the office becomes a space of personal exposure and vulnerability, effectively questioning the boundaries between the public and the private.